{"id":239188,"date":"2021-11-15T16:55:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=239188"},"modified":"2021-11-15T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:55:44","slug":"uj-womens-volleyball-opening-round-naia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=239188","title":{"rendered":"UJ Women&#8217;s Volleyball Opening Round NAIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmiepride.com\/article\/6317\">UJ)<\/a>\u00a0 The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has officially announced the teams and Opening Round pairings for the 2021 NAIA Volleyball National Championship. The 48-team event will get underway with 24 National Championship Opening Round Matches at campus locations on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Jamestown will be making its sixth straight trip to nationals and its ninth overall under head coach <a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  rosterCoachProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmiepride.com\/roster\/22\/18\/11051\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/22\/18\/11051\" data-original-title=\"\">Jon Hegerle<\/a>. Jamestown, 31-0 and ranked number one in the NAIA Coaches&#8217; Top 25 Poll, will host McPherson (Kan.) (16-8) 3 p.m. Saturday at Harold Newman Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Jimmies received an automatic bid by winning the Great Plains Athletic Conference regular-season championship and also repeated as the conference tournament champions.<\/p>\n<p>McPherson is making its third appearance in the NAIA National Tournament. The Bulldogs qualified as runners up in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 24 opening-round winners on Nov. 20 will advance to the final site in Sioux City, Iowa on Nov. 30-Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s field includes 36 automatic qualifiers and 12 at-large selections. The automatic berths are determined by regular-season champions or runner-ups, conference tournament title winners or runner-ups, or by conference selection. The remaining at-large bids were determined by the final regular-season Women&#8217;s Volleyball Coaches&#8217; Top 25 Poll announced Monday. Final site pools will be determined on Sunday, Nov. 21, and released by 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(UJ)\u00a0 The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has officially announced the teams and Opening Round pairings for the 2021 NAIA Volleyball National Championship. The 48-team event will get underway with 24 National Championship Opening Round Matches at campus locations on Nov. 20. The University of Jamestown will be making its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239189,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239188\/revisions\/239189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/239101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}